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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.17
People
Alfred Jensen, American (Guatemala City 1903 - 1981 Livingston, NJ)
Title
Maya Structure!
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Jan 5 1965
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212476

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, black ink and blue ballpoint ink on white wove paper
Dimensions
73.9 x 58.7 cm (29 1/8 x 23 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Jan. 5th / 1965 / Alfred Jensen
  • inscription: below image, black ink, in artist's hand: [sequences of numbers, including:] 13 x 168 = 2184. / 21 x 104 = 2184. / 12 x 182 = 2184.
  • blind stamp: Strathmore

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Alfred Jensen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Drawing is overlaid with a blue ball-point ink grid, numbered at lower and right edges. Squares in central area are numbered or lettered.

Publication History

  • Craigen Bowen and Barbara J. Mangum, "The User's Point of View: Micro-Fading Test Results and the Shaping of Exhibition Policy", The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation..., ed. Harriet K. Stratis, Archetype Publications (London, England, 2002), pp. 245-255, pp. 247, 250
  • Manuel Fontan del Junco, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, and María Toledo Gutiérrez, ed., Before América, exh. cat., Fundación Juan March (Madrid, 2023), p. 97, ill. fig 3 (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007

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